Petrino-ish

Who does this sound like:
Told his boss he was going to interview for another job, was told no, permission denied.
He did it anyway, and accepted the job.
He then informed his team he was leaving by having his director of football operations send a text to the players.
That was Todd Graham when he left Pittsburgh for Arizona State.

11 Responses to “Petrino-ish”

Who cares, and by the way your ASU story this morning shows you have no idea about ASU football. You just write story’s about it becasue it seems the nice thing to. We were not snubbed at all. In fact, going to the GoDaddy again would be great. The team gets extra practice (Dec 22 vs Jan 5), it is more money, getting to The Easy is hard 3 days before Chirstmas, and it was A GREAT TIME (opposite your stament this morning). The city of Mobile did a great job, the parade was GREAT, the fireworks over the water were great and the pep rally was well done. How would you even know what kind of time it was, you can’t come off the hill to get to any ASU event.

We are obviously going into a rebuilding period in our football program. I’m guessing the AD will use conventional wisdom and go after an existing head coach – call it part of the head coach recycling program.

Recent recycled head coaches: Rich Rodriquez, Skip Holtz, Todd Graham, Bob Davie, Hugh Freeze, Dennis Franchione, Tommy Tuberville, Terry Bowden, and Randy Edsall to name a few. Not many of them are burning the barn down. Do we really need a recycled head coach?

Darrell Royal and Frank Broyles were head coaches with 1 year of experience when they were hired in the late 1950s at Texas and Arkansas respectively, in an era when they did not have offensive and defensive coordinators.

Mark Richt became the Head Coach at Georgia with no head coaching experience and as did Will Muschamp at Florida, and David Shaw at Stanford. Those three programs are among the Top 10 teams in the country.

Bob Stoops at Oklahoma, Jimbo Fisher at Florida State, Bo Pelini at Nebraska, and Dabo Swinney at Clemson are all first time head coaches and are among the Top 15 teams in the country.

Louisville is 9-2 under 1st time Head Coach Charlie Strong. James Franklin had Vanderbilt on the upswing. Both supposedly on Arkansas’ radar.

Jim McElwain at Colorado State, Dan Mullen at MSU, Steve Sarkisian Washington, and Dana Holgersen at West Virginia are first time head coaches.

I would like to see us make a run at Kliff Kingsbury, the OC at Texas A&M. He has a rich background with Mike Leach as a player and with Holgersen and Kevin Sumlin as mentors. Yes he’s young but he is going to be in demand and a head coach in 2 or 3 years. Let’s face it, Arkansas is not going to a BCS bowl in the next 2 or 3 years. It would not hurt our program at this juncture to have some youthful enthusiasm. I would rather see us use the next 2 or 3 years to build the ground work to create a program long term rather than get an older experienced coach and have to go through this process six or seven years down the road. The future is now

David, you probaby have the best observation and insight into this farce at The UofA . Little Bobby and his play thing and play girl certainly did great damage to the reputation of a fine legacy but we will recover.

Wally, you talk of disrespect for the Red Wolves and we have to look on page 5 for a one column story while an assistant coach or player from the team Arkansas is playing get a fourth of the front sports page? Is it any wonder that Jonesboro looks to Memphis for so many things?

Looking at James Franklin’s two year record as head coach at Vanderbilt, by itself, is record enough to convince me he would make a great coach for Arkansas. He took a losing program (2-10) and turned it around to the best season (8-4) Vandy has had since 1982.

Now look back at Franklin’s assistant coaching jobs leading to his hire for the 2011 season and it is a nice mix of NFL and NCAA experience. He has proven himself to be good at both coaching and recruiting. And recruiting seems to be the achilles heel with each of the past – almost great – coachs that brought us to where we are now.

in my mind, Jeff Long had months to drag out a decision to feed his own ego. The easiest decision would be to hire Patrino back and forget that he (Patrino) failed to disclose something like it was the only deadly sin. Arkansas would have a good coach and admired for its ability to forgive. Patrino would gain his credibility and become humble. I would hate to have Jeff Long in the position of fourth and short with a national championship hanging on it.
As for Patrino, Jesus is in charge of his sin and not Jeff Long.